On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:10:08PM -0500, Clay Crouch wrote: > It has become quite clear that the culture that the DD community > shares has evolved in my absence. My absence disallowed me to > evolve with it. The culture you now enjoy is not the one I left.
Eh? Culture? Look, your anti-spam measures offend *me personally*. This isn't a "Debian culture" thing. I reserve the right to be annoyed at having to jump through hoops to get email to others with whom I work. And judging by the other responses in this thread, I'm not alone. > I truly didn't expect to be attacked on my first post. I also > truly didn't expect to be further lambasted from all quarters > for responding to them. You weren't attacked on your first post. Look carefully again at the first reply. It was very polite. It was not an attack. *Your* response to that post, however, was far from friendly. It was bristling with self-righteous indignation. After that, it was all downhill. > I know now that I have no place in your current culture. Debian > has moved on, and so have I. The old saw about never being able > to go "back" has just been reinforced in my mind. There is no "Debian" in this incident. There are just a handful of individual members of this list who were annoyed at your anti-spam policy sig. I'm willing to bet it would have been just as unwelcome in any other random non-trivial sized group of people who are supposed to be cooperating together online on a project. Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ]